River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08

Ter wheat Is relEcScuLcu DN DN,U4 bushels
received and shipped, the balance being all
spring wheat. or the spring wheet receipts
Is, So, 1921 bushes were No. hard, and the
shipments IL, 49),4ll bushels, the balance
being of lower grades, from 81 Northern"
to mo grade"
Judge Walker in the district court,
at Sioux City, Iowa, set for trial Sept. 5,
the case of Fred Munchrath, one of the de-
PENDANTS charged with the murder of Rev.
DIR. Haddock The defense made a strong
effort to have the Arensdorf case, which
was tried at the March term, again called,
but the state elected to have Munchraths
case tried next. 1t is believed that the state
has a much stronger case against Munich.
rath than was presented against Arensdorf,
and that if anything approaching an honest
jury can be secured, he will be convicted.
The question.of jury is the most important
one.
August Myrena, carpenter of Ka-
sofa, came to St. Peter to purchase goods
and ask doctor to go to Kasota and see
his sick wife. He commenced to drink soon
after he came, and by 10 p. m, was quite
drunk. He started home abou. 10 80, and
it is supposed fell down or sat down on the
Omaha track and went to sleep. The /
O'Clock freight bound north struck him and
cut him into over one hundred pieces, his
head and face alone being divided into fifty
pieces. His clothes and boots were stripped
from him. He leaves q wife and four small
children.
At Ashland Wis. the body of
Christian Paulson, who disappeared few
days since, and who was supposed TO have
been foully dealt with, was found in the
log slip of Sheffield's mill. A check for $5l
which he had on him when he disappeared
was found on the body, which does away
with the supposition that he was murdered.
The PIG lnrV raU1QrAd a VQrdipf Of
''death by accidental drowning" Paulson
was thirty-two years old, employed as rod
man in the Lake Shore engineer corps, and
leaves wife and child.
A Chadron, Neb., special says: Two
unknown persons attempted to make an
entrance in the night into the residence of
Mrs. John Bolts. Upon being informed by
the lady that their presence was not
wanted, they attempted to force an
entrance, one OF them displaying a revolt
yer. Mrs. Bolts drew 44calibre revolver
and fired, the ball taking effect. in the
| abdomen of one and lodging in the thigh
of the other. The wound of one is pro-
/ nounced fatal, the other uncertain. The
action of Mrs. Bolts is endorsed by the
citizens, as she is a very respectable lady.
At Monroe, Wis, William Kroell was
killed while blasting rock near the city
Four blasts were put in, three exploded but
| the fourth one did not go off. After waiting
| 20 minutes The men were ordered out, Mr.
| Kroell being the first man to get there. The
blast exploded, blowing him to the top of
cut As feet high, blowing one side OF his head
and one arm off and terribly managing his
body. One arm was found over 100 feet
! from the scene of the disaster. This makes
| three men killed in the same place during
the summer.
| At Moorhead, MINI, before Judge
Collins, argu ment on the bill of exceptions
for new trid in the case of Peter Czizek
| conviction of embezzleIlent, was heard.
Judge Collins overruled the motion and
sentenced Chick to pay a fine Of
Sl2,27o, double the amount of the
hard labor. A stay of execution was
granted to Oct. 4, the day of the meeting Of
of the supreme court, TO which an appeal
will be made by Chicks counsel.
Henry Michaels, farmer of about
80 years of age, living in HELEN township,
Mcleod County, Mimi, accidentally shot
himself in mis- arm. The shot grazed his
breast tearing away some of the flesh, and
| and struck his arm just below the shoulder,
mutilating it to such an extent as to
necessitate amputation at the shoulder.
Michaels supposed the gun was empty, and
| snapped a cap on it to see IL the tut was
clear, but his brother had loaded the gun
the day before.
The findings of the general court
martial which tried Capt. Cyrus N. Gray,
Twenty fifth infantry, has been acted upon
| by the President Capt GRAY was found
guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good
order and discipline at Fort Mead, OAK, and
appearing for duty as officer ofthe day while
/ drunk. The verdict of the court was dis
missal from the military service, and the
President having approved the sentence the
dismissal will take place Sept. /.
At Sioux City, Iowa, Charles Hoyt,
12 years old, experienced a narrow escape
from death. About IL o'clock a. m, the
boy, in company with several others, was
| playing in an uncompleted sewer near his
home, and was about IL feet below the sur
| face of the ground, when a large quantity
| of earth caved in on LII, covering him and
leaving three feet of soil above his head.
| Passers-by extricated the poor little fellow
after he had been buried 10 minutes.
The Wisconsin Leather company, one
of the oldest houses in Milwaukee, has con
fessed judgement on four notes amounting
| to over $4,000. The company was declared
| insOlvent by the Judge of the circuit court,
and all of its property was sequestered with
/ b. K. Miller as receiver. The sheriff is in
possession of the tannery and other property
| of the company. The liabilities are stated
as exceeding 100000.
Jerry Warner of Beaver Dam, Wis,
was arrested at Milwaukee and taken to
Appleton, where he is charged with en-
bezzlement. He went there and won the
confidence of an old lady whom he is al
legged TO have mulcted out of $780, The
money in his pockets, he came to Milwaukee
and started upon spree. 1t lasted two days,
/ and wilma an frail woman had uQqd all
his ready cash.
William Beck, formerly of Phila-
delphia, is at Washington, ID. c., asking the
government to search for his wife and
child, who we're captured with himself, he
says, by Ogallallah Sioux at Deadwood
twelve years ago. He says he was sep
arated from them and never saw them,
and that he had been prisoner with the
Indians since, until recently rescued by
Canadian police.
At Chatfeld, Mimi, Mrs. Patrick
Shay, widow, became insane, broke furni-
ture, and tried to kill her brother and his
children with ak and knife. She was ad-
| judged insane. Her husband died in an in
sane asylum six years ago, and she has al
ways feared she would be taken Their, too,
and declared that no power on earth could
compel her to be taken to the asylum to be
Shay is worth $4,000.
The Democrats of Iowa held their
State convention at Des Moines, nominating
Maj. j. +. Anderson for Governor, }. NJ.
Elder for Lieutenant Governor, Charles +.
Fogg for Judge of the Supreme Court,
Public instruction. The first resolution of
| the platform is an emphatic and cordial
endorsement of President Cleveland's
administration. The platform is strong
anti-monopoly and anti-prohibition.
Near Broken Bow, Neb., William
johnson became involved in quarrel with
his brother-in-law and demanded of hi
wife his revolver, which she had hidden
away from him. He wanted il to shoot his
brother in-law. His wife refused to give it
to him, whereupon he hit her across the pit
of the stomach with a club and killed her.
He then fed and has not been arrested.
The Manitoba road has pushed its
Montana extension with great vigor Since
April it has laid 412 miles of track from
Minot west. To Great Falls, from the end
of the track, is 13S miles, and this will be
laid by October. The line is now within %
miles of Fort Assinaboine. The new line is
said to be opening up very fertile farming
country for settlers.
At Richland Center, Wis, while at
prayer meeting, with his wife, Augustus
Haskin's house was ransacked by burglars.
A pocketbook containing over 5000 is
missing. Recently, butcher was attacked
in his house and relieved of $500, and a
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